It’s the start of a new week, and that means a new installment of “Five Tweets with..” As a refresher, each week we select one person from the world of Major League Baseball and then beg, bribe, cajole and/or twist their arm until they participate. We ask them five questions, they tweet their responses back to us, and we post ‘em here. The questions do not change, but how people interpret and answer them does. Think of this as our way to learn a little more about the people that play, cover, work with, tweet about and cheer on professional baseball teams, with an emphasis on the Dodgers.
This week we’re psyched to have the witty Orel from the always irreverent Dodgers blog Sons of Steve Garvey and @sosgsosg participating. The Sons keep it lighthearted and fun throughout the season, always looking for pop culture tie-ins and intelligent, humorous banter at every turn. Their site is one of our favorites to check in at during a game, and theirs was the site that we first looked to when trying to figure out our place in the Dodgers blogging landscape.
Note: Keep in mind that Orel kept to the spirit of the project by answering his questions via Twitter, so he had to make do with the 140 character limit for each answer.
Five Tweets with… Dodgers Blogger Orel from SonsOfSteveGarvey.com
1. What excites you the most about this season?
Kemp-Ethier-Manny 2-3-4. Healthy Furcal. Kershaw nominated for sainthood.
2. What is your biggest concern about this season?
Stagnation or injuries, or in Martin’s case, both. That the rotation falls apart. That the team becomes a sideshow.
3. What is your earliest baseball memory?
John Candelaria no-hitting the Dodgers http://bit.ly/9OFGiJ. He has been on my ON NOTICE list ever since.
4. What is your favorite baseball memory?
Gibson, of course. I was screaming and running around an empty dorm like an inmate freed from the asylum.
5. Why do you love the game?
Stadiums, hot dogs and the seventh-inning stretch. Robinson, Clemente and Ichiro. And yes, even Candelaria.